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• a  of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion
  amniotic membrane

• One of the best ways to confirm Down syndrome before birth is by amniocentesis, which uses a needle to remove a sample of the amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus.
• Bush said he was not against science; he encouraged research on stem cells drawn from amniotic fluid or created by genetic reprogramming.
• That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis.

• amnionic
• amnic

News & Articles

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• MiMedx Is Issued Three New U.S. Patents For Placental Tissue Allografts
  MARIETTA, Ga., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MiMedx Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDXG), an integrated developer, manufacturer and marketer of patent protected regenerative biomaterials and bioimplants processed from human amniotic membrane, announced today its receipt of three newly...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire

Quotes

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• Justin Rigali in PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
  It seems virtually every byproduct of live birth -- amniotic fluid, amniotic membrane, placenta, cord blood, and the tissue of the umbilical cord itself -- contains stem cells that may rival embryonic stem cells in their flexibility,the...
• Howard Kurtz in Town Hall
  The questions have come in, wave after wave, asking, as Kurtz wrote, "whether (Sarah) Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid has been tested, and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child's...
• James Dobson in WDC Media News
  And now, Dobson adds, "similar therapies may be developed using cells from amniotic fluid."